The semantic web is a pretty popular area of research right now and its far from being "built by computer scientists at Lehigh University", in fact I could have done an undergrad dissertation on the semantic web, and there were numerous phD positions being advertised at uni's around the world researching about the semantic web.
Whichever lehigh uni professor submitted this is stooping pretty low trying to raise publicity (and hence finance) I would think!
The trouble is you are under the assumption that this *IS* a time when microsoft need to be consolidating blah blah blah.
Problem is theyre big enough to pull stuff like this and still maintain a large market share..to be honest msn messenger is prob the largest reason that anyone has hotmail accounts
Actually there is a difference between bars and pubs...pubs are usually fasioned in the style of old public houses and are quieter with lots of tables for general chit char and socialising. Bars tend to be kind of a hybrid between clubs and pubs with more expensive drinks..few seats (usually booths where present), much more trendy decor and loud music with the emphasis on hooking up.
Here in edinburgh there are over 100 pubs/bars within half a mile of my flat (the result of some recce missions before a serious pub crawl)
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This is complete rubbish..my time is valuable..more valuable than paying a hundred quid a year or so to keep my computer running nice and quick rather than spending says on end trying to coax ancient hardware to do tasks far beyond its scope
Man that looks good, a friend of mine spent about a month writing a dhtml form designer which looks like this for his company..if i tell him about this he'll be fuming!!!!!
I agree but to do that you really need to pay people to moderate. I mean sure in games with keyboard chat you can filter words but people will still be able to use infinite variations of f4GG0t!!! or whatever, and i cant see any practical automated solution to voice chats at all.
And of course if people are paid to moderate that cost is going to be bourne by the users. Maybe theres a big enough base of users willing to pay for moderation to set up a smaller select network but Im not sure that this would be possible with consoles especially xbox.
Its just a shame that people can't play without this kind of pointless rubbish. So my suggestion is that for voice games just turn the volume off on the chat..or failing that play with no sound at all and put some tunes on. The text chat is usually easier to ignore seeing as its restricted to a small consistent screen area.
I think this is wholly unfiar. As a 14 year old i would say that my ability with computers was comparitively greater than it is now after completeing a four year AI degree. The difference is that of course that when i was 14 there wasnt anywhere near as many threats out there.
I dont think it has anything to do with age or professional paranoia..after all a 14 yo has all the time in the world to read as many articles as they want about securing a box. In the real world only a handful of people have spent more than a 2 week training course on it...of course experience isnt worthless it can be of a lot of use just maybe not as important as you made out.
If you want to back up large amounts then using usb media swiftly becomes prohibatively expensive though.
personally im looking to jump from my cd-rw to a dvd and the format wars dont seem too much of a problem..most drives write one but read all so i dont see why theres all the fuss.
dvd as far as i can tell is great for casual backup where you want reasonable file access without the hassle of tape and still have small costs. I haven't bought into it yet but without seeing some very convincing reasons i know i am poised to!
Well i'd call this questionable due to prior art. I have played plenty of flash games with league tables, further I have played them on my xbox. And im pretty sure it can be done on dreamcast as well.
There is also an EA golf arcade machine in the pub which keeps a regional league table collated from all machine in the region..im guessing this is prob done via the internet as well.
Try running the game before commenting jack-ass
theres plenty of people who think doom3 didnt live up to the hype but the graphic quality is leaps and bounds ahead of quake3
I think the problem a lot of people have with classifying it as a science is that you cant take previously discovered theorems and manipulate them to give more theorems. In maths and physics this is elementary and even in chemistry and biology it is a prime source of "NEW" ideas. In something like economics (or equally psychology, geographys etc) this isnt the case.
To me this creates a need for a "social science" classification, for all the things that use a scientific method but arent actually a science
Well i fail to see how you think a robot wouldnt be able to judge a safety shot! Firstly a robot is perfectly aware of exactly the angle required to make a shot either its own or an opponents and further could effortlessly caulculate the margin of error. Some simple adjustment to a standard mini-max algorithm would make this possible.
I would have to disagree with you here. Even without mastering spin and such like given a high enough degree of accuracy it is likely that a very good execution plan could be calculated.
I think the real issue here is firstly getting the vision system coupled with the actual physical movement in an accurate enough manner.
In some ways this game is much smaller than chess, although you may say that there are infinite variations and whatnot you forget that we already understand the physics of the pool table incredibly well. Rather than searching forward like in chess a pool playing robot will have the luxury to decide which ball it wants to pot and then extrpolate back using simple newtonian mechanics.
I think their 5 year estimate to get a competitive pool playing machine is a pretty good guestimate. I know from experience that robots are notoriously difficult to get doing things consistently (an undergrad project was building a vision system which could get a robot arm to guide a ball on a string through s small loop) and i think that getting the whole thing consistent is probably going to be the main source of work.
I appreciate that youve been playing for 20 years and have invested a lot of time in it but remember that machines attack the problem in different ways. I have been solving differential equations for 10 years for well over 2 hours per day but its pretty straightforward to write a program which can solve them faster and more accurately.
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in the words of someone far better versed in grammar than i am...
If you want to be possesive it's just I T S, if it's supposed to be a contraction it's I T apostrophe S
The semantic web is a pretty popular area of research right now and its far from being "built by computer scientists at Lehigh University", in fact I could have done an undergrad dissertation on the semantic web, and there were numerous phD positions being advertised at uni's around the world researching about the semantic web.
Whichever lehigh uni professor submitted this is stooping pretty low trying to raise publicity (and hence finance) I would think!
yuck! If your going to karma whore at least but in some paragraph breaks..my eyes nearly fell out after that assault of wordage!!!!
The trouble is you are under the assumption that this *IS* a time when microsoft need to be consolidating blah blah blah.
Problem is theyre big enough to pull stuff like this and still maintain a large market share..to be honest msn messenger is prob the largest reason that anyone has hotmail accounts
wow! and he can code too...who'd have thunk it http://www.machinehead1.com/bio.html
you sir read too much slashdot!
The handfull of comments here seem to be praise but have any of you actually looked at the screenshots?
I'm afraid this looks somewhat dated
Actually there is a difference between bars and pubs...pubs are usually fasioned in the style of old public houses and are quieter with lots of tables for general chit char and socialising. Bars tend to be kind of a hybrid between clubs and pubs with more expensive drinks..few seats (usually booths where present), much more trendy decor and loud music with the emphasis on hooking up.
Here in edinburgh there are over 100 pubs/bars within half a mile of my flat (the result of some recce missions before a serious pub crawl)
let me guess... your american???
This is complete rubbish..my time is valuable..more valuable than paying a hundred quid a year or so to keep my computer running nice and quick rather than spending says on end trying to coax ancient hardware to do tasks far beyond its scope
Man that looks good, a friend of mine spent about a month writing a dhtml form designer which looks like this for his company..if i tell him about this he'll be fuming!!!!!
I agree but to do that you really need to pay people to moderate. I mean sure in games with keyboard chat you can filter words but people will still be able to use infinite variations of f4GG0t!!! or whatever, and i cant see any practical automated solution to voice chats at all.
And of course if people are paid to moderate that cost is going to be bourne by the users. Maybe theres a big enough base of users willing to pay for moderation to set up a smaller select network but Im not sure that this would be possible with consoles especially xbox.
Its just a shame that people can't play without this kind of pointless rubbish. So my suggestion is that for voice games just turn the volume off on the chat..or failing that play with no sound at all and put some tunes on. The text chat is usually easier to ignore seeing as its restricted to a small consistent screen area.
does that mean that i only need to virtually use protection??
I think this is wholly unfiar. As a 14 year old i would say that my ability with computers was comparitively greater than it is now after completeing a four year AI degree. The difference is that of course that when i was 14 there wasnt anywhere near as many threats out there.
I dont think it has anything to do with age or professional paranoia..after all a 14 yo has all the time in the world to read as many articles as they want about securing a box. In the real world only a handful of people have spent more than a 2 week training course on it...of course experience isnt worthless it can be of a lot of use just maybe not as important as you made out.
If you want to back up large amounts then using usb media swiftly becomes prohibatively expensive though.
personally im looking to jump from my cd-rw to a dvd and the format wars dont seem too much of a problem..most drives write one but read all so i dont see why theres all the fuss.
dvd as far as i can tell is great for casual backup where you want reasonable file access without the hassle of tape and still have small costs. I haven't bought into it yet but without seeing some very convincing reasons i know i am poised to!
Well i'd call this questionable due to prior art. I have played plenty of flash games with league tables, further I have played them on my xbox. And im pretty sure it can be done on dreamcast as well.
There is also an EA golf arcade machine in the pub which keeps a regional league table collated from all machine in the region..im guessing this is prob done via the internet as well.
quake 3 has no single player..hows that for a pretty big difference for ya?
Try running the game before commenting jack-ass
theres plenty of people who think doom3 didnt live up to the hype but the graphic quality is leaps and bounds ahead of quake3
i know its not fun but surely you mac users must be realising that it might be more economical to put together a cheap PC to run games
Well im from one of those arty crowds who can actually see the emporers clothes.
Therefore heed my mighty opinion and tremble in the face of my mighty knowledge as i name some really obscure films that youve never heard of!!!!
Fear my better informed wrath!
I think the problem a lot of people have with classifying it as a science is that you cant take previously discovered theorems and manipulate them to give more theorems. In maths and physics this is elementary and even in chemistry and biology it is a prime source of "NEW" ideas. In something like economics (or equally psychology, geographys etc) this isnt the case.
To me this creates a need for a "social science" classification, for all the things that use a scientific method but arent actually a science
Well i fail to see how you think a robot wouldnt be able to judge a safety shot! Firstly a robot is perfectly aware of exactly the angle required to make a shot either its own or an opponents and further could effortlessly caulculate the margin of error. Some simple adjustment to a standard mini-max algorithm would make this possible.
I would have to disagree with you here. Even without mastering spin and such like given a high enough degree of accuracy it is likely that a very good execution plan could be calculated.
I think the real issue here is firstly getting the vision system coupled with the actual physical movement in an accurate enough manner.
In some ways this game is much smaller than chess, although you may say that there are infinite variations and whatnot you forget that we already understand the physics of the pool table incredibly well. Rather than searching forward like in chess a pool playing robot will have the luxury to decide which ball it wants to pot and then extrpolate back using simple newtonian mechanics.
I think their 5 year estimate to get a competitive pool playing machine is a pretty good guestimate. I know from experience that robots are notoriously difficult to get doing things consistently (an undergrad project was building a vision system which could get a robot arm to guide a ball on a string through s small loop) and i think that getting the whole thing consistent is probably going to be the main source of work.
I appreciate that youve been playing for 20 years and have invested a lot of time in it but remember that machines attack the problem in different ways. I have been solving differential equations for 10 years for well over 2 hours per day but its pretty straightforward to write a program which can solve them faster and more accurately.
HTML is a great language, if they made a openGL library for it I wouldnt ever bother with C++
A better understanding of what neural net means.